Name: Aneel Kumar

Batch: BBA 2 (B)

Roll no: 1411596
Assignment no 1 (logic)
 Argument 1:

A good society treasures its dissidents and mavericks because it needs the creative
thinking that produces new hypotheses , expanded means a larger set of
alternatives, and in general the vigorous conversation induced by fresh ideas ( Nel
Nodding’s, philosophy of education, 1995)

Premise: A good society treasures its dissidents and mavericks because it needs
the creative thinking that produces new hypotheses , expanded means a larger set
of alternatives, and in general the vigorous conversation induced by fresh ideas .

Conclusion: A good society treasures its dissidents and mavericks.

Argument 2:

Since in American schools every child is unique and of equal worth with every
other child, academic competition, which subverts this egalitarin and individualist
creed, must be discouraged.

Premise 1: In American schools every child is unique and of equal worth with
every other child.

Premise 2 : academic competition, which subverts this egalitarin and individualist

creed.

Conclusion: Academic competition must be discouraged.

Argument 3:

Make a will, otherwise, the state will determine who gets your stuff.

Premise : If you don’t make a will, the state will determine who gets your stuff.
Conclusion: you ought to make a will.

Argument 4:

Research universities also must aggressively support teaching after all a

significant percentages of their students are undergraduate , and such institutions
are clearly obligated to provide them a quality education.

Premises: such institutions are clearly obligated to provide undergraduate with a

quality education.

Conclusion: Research universities also must aggressively support teaching.

Argument:5

The jews and Arabs have been fighting for centuires and I seriously doubt this will
ever be resolved . The United states should get out of this never ending fight or the
next terrorist bomb might be in washington and it just might be nuclear .

Premise: The jews and Arabs have been fighting for centuires

Premise 2: There is serious doubt this will ever be resolved .

Conclusion: The United States should get out of the never ending fight between
the jews and the Arabs.

Argument 6:

No one who observes people can pretend that in fact they always seek anything
like their own long run advantage. If this were the case only stupidity could explain
how frequently and obviously they act contrary to their own long run advantage.
People are not that stupid!.

Premise: People are not that stupid.

Conclusion :No one who observes people can pretend that in fact they always seek
anything like their own long run advantage

Argument 7:

Many people yearn for a return to religiousness to education, so that press for laws
permitting vocal prayer in the classroom. But I cannot join them. Vocal prayer in
class dictates a consensus that does not exist in our pluralistic society, and any
prayer that is so vaguely worded that it sound agreeable to all is, by my limits, no
prayer at all

Premise: Vocal prayer in class dictates a consensus that does not exist in our
pluralistic society.

Premise 2: any prayer that is so vaguely worded that it sound agreeable to all.

Conclusion: Although many people yearn for a return to religiousness to education

and for this reason press for laws permitting vocal prayer in the classroom , it
would be a mistake to enact such laws.

Argument 8:

We have good reason to believe that people will exist in future and that they will
be similar enough to us that we can have a good idea of what their well being
requires . knowing this and knowing that our present actions can influence their
well being, it is reasonable to conclude that future people must be given some
ethical consideration by presently living human beings.

Premise 1: We have good reason to believe that people will exist in the future
and that they will be similar enough to us that we can have a good idea of what
their well being requires.

Premise 2: We know that our present actions can influence future people well-
being .

Conclusion: future people must be given some ethical consideration by presently

living human beings.

Argument 9:

With what group do I belong ?? I am with those who would be pleased to be

refuted if I should say anything that is not true and pleased to be the refuter of
anyone who should say anything that is not true more pleased in fact to be refuted
than to refute. I think that’s a greater good , you see , insofar as it’s a greater good
to be relieved of a great evil than to relieve another of the same.

Premise : It is a greater good to be relieved of a great evil than to relieve another

of the same.

Conclusion: it is a greater good to be refuted than to refute.

Refrences : http://philosophy.hku.hk/think/arg/arg.php